VOTING: Challenge #9 - Long May the Sentence Run - CLOSED
Please vote for your two favourites! There are only ten, so you should be able to read them all. Even though you may not be familiar with all the fandoms, try to judge based on which sentences you like best or which are most clever given the 100-word stipulation, and not based on your favourite fandom : ) Any that have spoilers are very, very vague.
Format your response like this:
Votes: 013, 025
Team Name: Barefoot : )
No sig tags for this bit.
You receive 10 points for participating in the vote. Eaaasssssy money.
First place will receive 200 points. Second place will receive 100 points. Third place will receive 50 points.
You have until 9 November December 2012 @ 7PM GMT!
*fiendishly keeps editing*
For this challenge, no voting for yourself.
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001
Title: Just Paige
Fandom: Charmed
Characters: Paige Matthews
Rating: G
Warnings: No
Spoilers: I suppose spoilers for season 4 but if you know who Paige is you're safe.
Word Count: 100
So much had changed in Paige's life in such a short amount of time, this morning she didn't have a family but now she had sisters, three of them, one of which who had just died, and that she was a witch with magical powers, she didn't think she liked this new part of her life, she was glad she belonged to a family and had sisters but the witch part she wanted nothing to do with it, she just wanted her normal boring life back, wanted to be old Paige again, with no sisters and no powers, just Paige.
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002
Title: Say it and it shall be so
Fandom: White Collar
Characters: El (pre-Peter/Neal/El)
Rating: PG
Warnings: Vague references to sex and issues of power imbalance
Spoilers: None
Word Count: 120
El lists the reasons in her head every night before she goes to sleep, like a mantra, like a lesson, like a prayer, counting them off on her fingers as if she's counting rosary beads; there’s her husband’s career, his reputation, the myriad moral issues and questions of consent and abuse of power, and of course her husband’s heart which will be so completely shattered when it ends, not to mention their marriage - which she thinks could withstand this, could withstand anything, but there’s no way to be sure - and El tells herself that it’s a long enough list, that there are more than enough reasons there to keep Neal Caffrey out of their hearts and out of their bed.
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003
Title: They're All Here
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Characters: Lydia Martin with Jackson, Stiles, Peter
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some vague hints at non-con situations if you read between the lines
Spoilers: general season two
Word Count: 117
As the sun set on the scene, Lydia Martin thought, ‘They’re all here,” and they were: her Jackson who wasn’t really HER Jackson anymore but a creature, something other with scales and a tail; and Stiles who had always loved her from afar because she was beautiful and smart and in spite of the fact that she had purposefully ignored him on numerous occasion (but he was slipping away from her, less besotted with each day); and he was there - the man from her dreams who whispered in her ear and made her do things she didn’t understand, made her part of something that she had no control or understanding of - his name was Peter.
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004
Title: A way back
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia (bookverse)
Characters: Susan Pevensie
Rating: K
Warnings: Character Death
Spoilers: Spoilers for "The last battle"
Word Count: 116
Susan knew that this was the end and she was in a way happy about it; sure, she would miss her husband and her children but she had, after years of suffering, sworn to herself that she would find a way back to hope, a way back to her brothers and her sister and now she hopes that she had found this way, that she finally would be able to let hope grow, to let love shine and to be again the person she was; when she made her last breath she felt the sun and smelled the forest, everything felt like home and in that particular moment she knew, that she was back in Narnia.
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005
Title: Dreams
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Characters: Sharon Aagathons
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Spoilers: Season 3
Word Count: 100
Sharon Agathon dreams of the day when she will be accepted amongst the rest of the fleet, the day when she will be able to walk down the corridors of the Battlestar, eat in the meal halls, go to the showers, work out at the gym, wash her laundry, work on her raptor, and do other normal, ordinary, everyday, human chores without being stared at and pointed to, without having to hear the whispers and awful slurs thrown at her, without being afraid for herself and her husband; yes, she dreams of that day and knows that it will come.
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006
Title: Losing Jadzia
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Characters: Jadzia Dax
Rating: PG
Warnings: none; I think this is a bit out of character, or at least an alternate look at a Dax that might have been
Spoilers: none
Word Count: 100 words
No one in her family has ever been joined, has ever experienced the astonishing sensation of becoming one with someone so ancient and yet still so young, mingling with the life-forces of past hosts, and she wondered if they felt the lack, sensed that something important was missing from deep inside them; for Jadzia had only pale, fading memories of her life before Dax, knew the girl and understood what drove her but couldn't remember what she felt at her very core, the essence of all she was before she became so much more - and some days that worried her.
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007
Title: What could have been
Fandom: Once upon a time
Characters: Snow White with mention of Emma
Rating: PG
Warnings: none (except general sadness)
Spoilers: Up until ‘Lady of the Lake’
Word Count: 111
After Emma had backed away from her embrace, finally having admitted her anger and fear but still unsure of how to handle suddenly having a mother, a mother who loved her and who would have given everything to see her grow up, to be with her, Snow took her bow and shouldered her arrows, taking one last look at the desolate, dark nursery and for one second it seemed like everything was bathed in light - the crib was whole again, the cupboards unbroken and filled with shiny new toys and laughter filled the air, the laughter of a happy child, the remnants of what could have been, what should have been.
***
008
Title: not that girl
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: Molly Hooper, John Watson
Rating: G
Warnings:
Spoilers: For The Reichenbach Fall
Word Count: 105
He isn’t dead, Molly wants to say to the uncertain half-steps that John takes now he’s lost the distraction that made him steady; he isn’t dead, it’s not what you think, but sometimes this is the only way are the words that stick to her tongue when he brings her cheap vending machine coffee, bitter and tasteless and numb as the silences that drag out between them, John thinking that they’re sharing grief and Molly feeling only absence, guilt, the weight of secrecy and all that trust wrapped around her wrists, her shoulders, her back, bending her double and ever so, so very, very tired.
***
009
Title: Dream job
Fandom: Chicago Fire
Characters: Leslie Shay
Rating: K
Warnings: -
Spoilers: None
Word Count: 117
Being a paramedic had always been Leslie Shay's dream job - thinking back she remembered when she was a child and saw a real paramedic help out her grandmother, being kind, paying attention and most important, relieving her pain a little - she could say that in that moment she knew what she wanted to be when she grow up, and a few years later here she was, driving the ambulance alongside her good friend Dawson, attending cases of all sorts meeting victims that suffered heart attacks, car crashes, gun shot wounds, pregnant women and the occasional drunks, but she did it all with a smile on her face because this was all she wanted to do.
***
010
Title: Ready, Set, No
Fandom: Elementary
Characters: Joan Watson
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Spoilers: 1.08 'The Long Fuse' (last aired episode)
Word Count: 117
Leaning against the door, Joan smiled as she watched Sherlock interact with Alfredo, pleased that her decision to call him over had been the right one after all- not that she had ever doubted herself- realizing that she would truly be leaving Sherlock in capable hands when she left ... left ... she was going to be leaving soon, an idea that she hadn't spent too much time dwelling on, except when reminding Sherlock about it, of course, and surprised herself at how much the idea of not seeing him day in and day out bothered her, more than she thought it would, as she realized for the first time that she might not want to go after all.
Format your response like this:
Votes: 013, 025
Team Name: Barefoot : )
No sig tags for this bit.
You receive 10 points for participating in the vote. Eaaasssssy money.
First place will receive 200 points. Second place will receive 100 points. Third place will receive 50 points.
You have until 9 November December 2012 @ 7PM GMT!
*fiendishly keeps editing*
For this challenge, no voting for yourself.
***
001
Title: Just Paige
Fandom: Charmed
Characters: Paige Matthews
Rating: G
Warnings: No
Spoilers: I suppose spoilers for season 4 but if you know who Paige is you're safe.
Word Count: 100
So much had changed in Paige's life in such a short amount of time, this morning she didn't have a family but now she had sisters, three of them, one of which who had just died, and that she was a witch with magical powers, she didn't think she liked this new part of her life, she was glad she belonged to a family and had sisters but the witch part she wanted nothing to do with it, she just wanted her normal boring life back, wanted to be old Paige again, with no sisters and no powers, just Paige.
***
002
Title: Say it and it shall be so
Fandom: White Collar
Characters: El (pre-Peter/Neal/El)
Rating: PG
Warnings: Vague references to sex and issues of power imbalance
Spoilers: None
Word Count: 120
El lists the reasons in her head every night before she goes to sleep, like a mantra, like a lesson, like a prayer, counting them off on her fingers as if she's counting rosary beads; there’s her husband’s career, his reputation, the myriad moral issues and questions of consent and abuse of power, and of course her husband’s heart which will be so completely shattered when it ends, not to mention their marriage - which she thinks could withstand this, could withstand anything, but there’s no way to be sure - and El tells herself that it’s a long enough list, that there are more than enough reasons there to keep Neal Caffrey out of their hearts and out of their bed.
***
003
Title: They're All Here
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Characters: Lydia Martin with Jackson, Stiles, Peter
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some vague hints at non-con situations if you read between the lines
Spoilers: general season two
Word Count: 117
As the sun set on the scene, Lydia Martin thought, ‘They’re all here,” and they were: her Jackson who wasn’t really HER Jackson anymore but a creature, something other with scales and a tail; and Stiles who had always loved her from afar because she was beautiful and smart and in spite of the fact that she had purposefully ignored him on numerous occasion (but he was slipping away from her, less besotted with each day); and he was there - the man from her dreams who whispered in her ear and made her do things she didn’t understand, made her part of something that she had no control or understanding of - his name was Peter.
***
004
Title: A way back
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia (bookverse)
Characters: Susan Pevensie
Rating: K
Warnings: Character Death
Spoilers: Spoilers for "The last battle"
Word Count: 116
Susan knew that this was the end and she was in a way happy about it; sure, she would miss her husband and her children but she had, after years of suffering, sworn to herself that she would find a way back to hope, a way back to her brothers and her sister and now she hopes that she had found this way, that she finally would be able to let hope grow, to let love shine and to be again the person she was; when she made her last breath she felt the sun and smelled the forest, everything felt like home and in that particular moment she knew, that she was back in Narnia.
***
005
Title: Dreams
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Characters: Sharon Aagathons
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Spoilers: Season 3
Word Count: 100
Sharon Agathon dreams of the day when she will be accepted amongst the rest of the fleet, the day when she will be able to walk down the corridors of the Battlestar, eat in the meal halls, go to the showers, work out at the gym, wash her laundry, work on her raptor, and do other normal, ordinary, everyday, human chores without being stared at and pointed to, without having to hear the whispers and awful slurs thrown at her, without being afraid for herself and her husband; yes, she dreams of that day and knows that it will come.
***
006
Title: Losing Jadzia
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Characters: Jadzia Dax
Rating: PG
Warnings: none; I think this is a bit out of character, or at least an alternate look at a Dax that might have been
Spoilers: none
Word Count: 100 words
No one in her family has ever been joined, has ever experienced the astonishing sensation of becoming one with someone so ancient and yet still so young, mingling with the life-forces of past hosts, and she wondered if they felt the lack, sensed that something important was missing from deep inside them; for Jadzia had only pale, fading memories of her life before Dax, knew the girl and understood what drove her but couldn't remember what she felt at her very core, the essence of all she was before she became so much more - and some days that worried her.
***
007
Title: What could have been
Fandom: Once upon a time
Characters: Snow White with mention of Emma
Rating: PG
Warnings: none (except general sadness)
Spoilers: Up until ‘Lady of the Lake’
Word Count: 111
After Emma had backed away from her embrace, finally having admitted her anger and fear but still unsure of how to handle suddenly having a mother, a mother who loved her and who would have given everything to see her grow up, to be with her, Snow took her bow and shouldered her arrows, taking one last look at the desolate, dark nursery and for one second it seemed like everything was bathed in light - the crib was whole again, the cupboards unbroken and filled with shiny new toys and laughter filled the air, the laughter of a happy child, the remnants of what could have been, what should have been.
***
008
Title: not that girl
Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: Molly Hooper, John Watson
Rating: G
Warnings:
Spoilers: For The Reichenbach Fall
Word Count: 105
He isn’t dead, Molly wants to say to the uncertain half-steps that John takes now he’s lost the distraction that made him steady; he isn’t dead, it’s not what you think, but sometimes this is the only way are the words that stick to her tongue when he brings her cheap vending machine coffee, bitter and tasteless and numb as the silences that drag out between them, John thinking that they’re sharing grief and Molly feeling only absence, guilt, the weight of secrecy and all that trust wrapped around her wrists, her shoulders, her back, bending her double and ever so, so very, very tired.
***
009
Title: Dream job
Fandom: Chicago Fire
Characters: Leslie Shay
Rating: K
Warnings: -
Spoilers: None
Word Count: 117
Being a paramedic had always been Leslie Shay's dream job - thinking back she remembered when she was a child and saw a real paramedic help out her grandmother, being kind, paying attention and most important, relieving her pain a little - she could say that in that moment she knew what she wanted to be when she grow up, and a few years later here she was, driving the ambulance alongside her good friend Dawson, attending cases of all sorts meeting victims that suffered heart attacks, car crashes, gun shot wounds, pregnant women and the occasional drunks, but she did it all with a smile on her face because this was all she wanted to do.
***
010
Title: Ready, Set, No
Fandom: Elementary
Characters: Joan Watson
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Spoilers: 1.08 'The Long Fuse' (last aired episode)
Word Count: 117
Leaning against the door, Joan smiled as she watched Sherlock interact with Alfredo, pleased that her decision to call him over had been the right one after all- not that she had ever doubted herself- realizing that she would truly be leaving Sherlock in capable hands when she left ... left ... she was going to be leaving soon, an idea that she hadn't spent too much time dwelling on, except when reminding Sherlock about it, of course, and surprised herself at how much the idea of not seeing him day in and day out bothered her, more than she thought it would, as she realized for the first time that she might not want to go after all.